{"id":23387,"date":"2024-04-03T11:37:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=23387"},"modified":"2024-04-03T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:37:55","slug":"a-game-of-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2024\/04\/a-game-of-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"A Game of Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was a near-revolt the last time I Q\u2019d Redline because we 1) did hill repeats ONLY and 2) made everyone do merkins after one of our hills. This time I wisened up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Thang:<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warm up clockwise around Hanes Park, stopping at the base of the Intimidator. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hill repeats: Carolina, Jersey, &amp; Carolina again.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mosey to the track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the track, there was a lantern with a weinke and a deck of cards. PAX were instructed to pair up. One person drew a card and the group ran the required distance (see below). Upon return, repeat until time was called.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heart &#8211; 100m with a 100m recovery<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diamond &#8211; 300m with a 100m recovery<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Club &#8211; 400m with an OYO recovery<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spade &#8211; 600m with a 200m recovery<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jacks are wild (runner\u2019s choice)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jokers are 800m with an OYO recovery<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We didn\u2019t get to all the cards but fortunately, our group avoided the Jokers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Announcements<\/span>: Next happy hour(ish) is Thursday 5:30-7pm Village Tavern on Reynolda Road<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Prayers<\/span>: Aging family members, PAX who are traveling for spring break<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NMM:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>I start a new job on Monday and will be leaving the classroom. However, I thank the assembled PAX for making me feel like a teacher again when I specifically asked everyone to <\/span><b>pair up <\/b><span>(Oxford dictionary defines \u2018pair\u2019 as: a set of two things used together or regarded as a unit) and NO ONE listened and they got in groups of 3 &amp; 4 instead. Thanks for making me feel at home since no one listened to me in my classroom anyway.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the time you read this, Interference will either be sitting on a beach in Turks &amp; Caicos, snorkeling, or double-fisting the \u2018free\u2019 drinks at the all-inclusive hotel they&#8217;re staying at. Remember the SPF!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I tried to race Pinky and Interference up the hills and was beaten not once, not twice\u2026but all three times.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shout out to Chomper for giving me the deck of cards idea in the first place. One of my very first Redlines, Chomper Q\u2019d and had a (much more) creative beatdown involving a deck of cards and lap running.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My group of 4 was Cowboy, Hitman, and Resistor. I learned that Singing Cowboy is a very fast walker and \u2018recovered\u2019 back to the start before each of us every time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hitman rigged the cards in such a way that we ended up running one of each of the exercises (except the Joker).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My favorite part of the workout was afterwards, while taking in the parking lot, Resistor changed shirts and came over to join us wearing his <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">very <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lOzAiDlJGp8?si=iZKoGSqlna4B13PL\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">deep V<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Fingers crossed he runs in one at the next Redline!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks for the keys, Chomper, I left them next to the deck of cards.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a near-revolt the last time I Q\u2019d Redline because we 1) did hill repeats ONLY and 2) made everyone do merkins after one of our hills. This time I wisened up. The Thang: Warm up clockwise around Hanes Park, stopping at the base of the Intimidator. Hill repeats: Carolina, Jersey, &amp; Carolina again.\u00a0Mosey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redline"],"acf":{"q":"Doublewide","date":"04.02.2024","pax":"Interference, Resistor, Chomper, Hitman, Singing Cowboy, Pinky"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23390,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387\/revisions\/23390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}